Praveen Pardeshi

With coronavirus cases in Mumbai continuing to climb at an alarming rate, the chief of the city's civic body Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) was replaced on Friday.

Mumbai civic body chief Praveen Pardeshi today defended the decision to cut over 2600 trees to build a metro car shed in the suburban Aarey Colony, a prominent green lung in the metropolis , saying that it has more trees than London, Tokyo or New York.

Mumbai received the highest rainfall in a decade in just two days, affecting trains and flights, resulting in massive traffic jams and flooding homes in low-lying areas. Since Sunday night, it rained a total of 540 millimetres - the highest over a two-day period in a decade, Mumbai Municipal Commissioner Praveen Pardeshi told NDTV.

Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis had earlier this week issued an unequivocal denial that his entourage delayed a flight to New York by an hour. NDTV has now accessed an internal Air India memo that records the delay and discloses that when the chief minister's advise was sought, he "responded that he would not travel without his delegation."

At a time when India's repeatedly expressing its frustration with VIP culture, politicians and their aides appear to remain in thrall to special treatment. On Monday morning, an Air India flight from Mumbai to New York, with Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on board, was delayed by nearly an hour on account of a member of his entourage, sources sai...

Maharashtra will soon have its fifth tiger reserve in Nagzira following approval from the National Tiger Conservation Authority, a senior official said.

With coronavirus cases in Mumbai continuing to climb at an alarming rate, the chief of the city's civic body Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) was replaced on Friday.

Mumbai civic body chief Praveen Pardeshi today defended the decision to cut over 2600 trees to build a metro car shed in the suburban Aarey Colony, a prominent green lung in the metropolis , saying that it has more trees than London, Tokyo or New York.

Mumbai received the highest rainfall in a decade in just two days, affecting trains and flights, resulting in massive traffic jams and flooding homes in low-lying areas. Since Sunday night, it rained a total of 540 millimetres - the highest over a two-day period in a decade, Mumbai Municipal Commissioner Praveen Pardeshi told NDTV.

Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis had earlier this week issued an unequivocal denial that his entourage delayed a flight to New York by an hour. NDTV has now accessed an internal Air India memo that records the delay and discloses that when the chief minister's advise was sought, he "responded that he would not travel without his delegation."

At a time when India's repeatedly expressing its frustration with VIP culture, politicians and their aides appear to remain in thrall to special treatment. On Monday morning, an Air India flight from Mumbai to New York, with Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on board, was delayed by nearly an hour on account of a member of his entourage, sources sai...

Maharashtra will soon have its fifth tiger reserve in Nagzira following approval from the National Tiger Conservation Authority, a senior official said.